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== The town where everyone lives is a [[Genius Loci]] very similar to [[Silent Hill]] ==
Except instead of [[Cold -Blooded Torture|"playing with"]] troubled visitors, it does it to its own inhabitants. It's also able to warp reality like the other one, but while Silent Hill uses it's power to create a [[Dark World|nightmare version of itself]], THIS town uses its power to continuously revive and [[Laser -Guided Amnesia|wipe the minds of]] the citizens so they can be killed again and again; as well as cause everything that CAN go wrong TO go wrong, which is what ends up killing everyone every time. [[Chaotic Evil|Much to the amusement of the town.]]
 
== The entire series is in Flippy's head. ==
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* {{spoiler|So this series is even MORE like Umineko now!}}
 
== Happy Tree Friends takes place in an overlap world between ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)ni|Higurashi]]'' and ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]''. ==
Kira hates furries, so he slaughters them in increasingly more gruesome ways in frustration that they keep coming back when the [[Groundhog Day Loop]] resets.
* [[Jossed]]. The Death Note rules specifically state that the cause of death listed must be physically possible, something that [[Happy Tree Friends]] [[Made of Plasticine|isn't particularly concerned with.]]
* Although "physically possible" could just be more loosely defined here...
 
== Cub's mother/Pop's wife made a [[Deal Withwith the Devil]]. ==
She sold her soul to make sure her son and husband (as well as the rest of the cast) always come [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]].
 
== The HTF gang are either in an RPG or a tabletop game and can be revived. ==
The characters come back to life each time round, and Lumpy takes some care trying to retrieve all of the corpses in Take a Hike, so maybe the characters have been "just knocked unconscious" by all those horrible incidents and Lumpy was trying to get them to the local doctor for rezzing before a [[Total Party Kill]] occurred. Furthermore it would explain the insane risks [[Made of Plasticine]] characters take, and the fact that they can survive apparently fatal injuries; for them, its just lots of lost HP. [[Killer Game Master|No prizes for guessing what the GM is like.]]
* Leading on from that, what would the characters stats be like? Low wisdom stats all around naturally, though not necessarily low intelligence. For example, Sniffles is smart enough to assemble advanced technologies, but the things he does with them... Lumpy though... I guess he would have the highest charisma seeing as he always seems to end up in a leadership role despite his being [[The Ditz]], but he's clearly the dimmest of the bunch.
** Perhaps they're in a hyper-violent stress-relief game of [[Toon (Tabletop Gamegame)|Toon]]?
 
== The characters in HTF are [[Doctor Who (TV)|Time Lords/Ladies]]. ==
The reason they can die horribly in one episode and be back to die horribly in the next episode is due to regeneration. None of them are in possession of a working Tardis.
* But if that were true, they wouldn't look the same in every episode.
 
== The Happy Tree Friends can all regenerate. ==
Dying horribly is pretty much par for the course for them.
 
== Happy Tree Friends takes place in the same universe as ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Nini]]''. ==
... except the interval of the loops is shorter.
** Why would it loop? [[Umineko no Naku Koro Nini|Witches.]] Though which one of the characters is a witch/sorcerer isn't clear.
 
== The series is a more "ordinary" [[Groundhog Day Loop]] than the ones mentioned above. ==
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== The death of Cub's mom/Pop's wife is what starts the string of deaths in every time loop. ==
It makes sense considering that, if the hints are to be believed and she is truly dead, she's the only character who ''stays'' that way. The reason the Happy Tree Friends are doomed to suffer and die again and again is because Pop always fails to save her. Pop's wife died in the same accident that Handy lost his hands in, which would explain why he always appears as an amputee even when worse injuries to other characters seem to have no lasting effect.
 
== The Idol causes ''all'' of the deaths (unless they are murders, when it just makes them [[Made of Plasticine|much easier]]). ==
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== Cub controls the time loops. ==
He travels through the time-space continuum indefinitely, trying to find a world where his father is not a bumbling moron and his mother is still alive, and he must start over again every time Pop gets him killed/somebody else dies.
 
== Alternatively, Flaky controls them, or atleast can remember the past loops. ==
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If you combine the above theories with the lower of the episodes being in non-chronological order, this could be possible. [[Heartwarming in Hindsight|And now]] ''We Wish You'' and ''Asbestos We Can Do'' are less time-wasting and more like short snippets of [[Slice of Life]] to show us that they ''did'' get their happy ending... [[Sadist Show|even though we might as well watch more past loops for kicks]].
 
== Character-based [[WM GsWMG]]s ==
 
== Flippy is partly cured of his PTSD as of ''Double Whammy Pt. 2'' ==
Depending on whether or not psychological changes span episodes/death in the HTF-verse. He was shown to be cured of his [[Split Personality]] at the end of ''Double Whammy'' (before promptly being run over by a semi), and this has since been carried on into ''Without a Hitch''. In ''Without a Hitch'', even though Flaky imagined him flipping out three times, he never actually flipped out despite being in the presence of pretty good triggers: loud thunder, a car crash, and a bloodied Flaky. Giggles covered in ketchup was enough to set him off in ''Flippin' Burgers'', so a badly injured Flaky should have made him flip out, if anything.
 
== Flippy's PTSD hasn't been cured yet. ==
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== The Mole is a sadist. ==
He might not be able to see anything, but he's not deaf. Take a look at ''Wipe Out'', where he makes sure that his surfing board is in good condition. Even when Lumpy gets onto the board. Skin feels rather different to a surfing board, and he should have heard the screams... We have a similar problem in ''Every Litter Bit Hurts'', where Giggles gets impaled and the Mole takes her heart out like it's trash.
Adding this to his habit of eating things he shouldn't eat, [[Nightmare Fuel StationattendantStation Attendant|One can only imagine what his]] [[I'm a Humanitarian|human self]] [[Dissonant Serenity|would be like]]...
 
== Nutty had an incident a long time prior the events of the series... ==
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== About Cro-Marmot... ==
The Cro-Marmot that we see in ''Dino-sore Days isn't him, but an old ancestor, given the slightly different appearances.
Cro-Marmot used to be a normal Friend, possibly about the same age as Disco Bear, or somewhat younger. We do know that he was successful in many areas, including the piano - he might simply have been interested in history and based his Artist's Name on his favourite historical period. Then [[A Wizard Did It|somebody got]] [[Green -Eyed Monster|jealous of him,]] and decided to give him a [[Fate Worse Than Death]] (although this may have backfired, given Marmot's smile.
 
Flaky has a picture on her watch where he isn't encased in ice. *slams desk with hands* This is an indication that he wasn't in ice when/after cameras where invented!
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* Shippers assemble! I've been working on this theory for a long time. Besides the proofs you put, I'd like to point out another two. Remember ''Double Whammy''? The first time Flippy flips out, he kills everybody and bathes in their blood. The defenseless Flaky comes by and screams, causing Flippy to go back to his usual self. Why would Flaky's screams wake him up? Also, in ''Party Animal'', there is a moment where the flipped out Flippy is looking for prey. He sees poor Flaky inflated because of her allergy and thus unable to move. What does he do? Ignores her and keeps looking for victims.
* Flippy is known to come out of his flips if he hears loud noises. And maybe he didn't attack Flaky in ''Party Animal'' because ''she looked nothing like flaky.'' Flipqy consciously killed Flaky 4 times anyways.
* Yes, but that was in the beginning of ''Happy Tree Friends''. In latter episodes, he apparently gets closer to Flaky (the signs that they're becoming really good friends - Flaky even might be Flippy's best friend- are mentioned by the first two fellow tropers), which determines him to have feelings for her, feelings that might interfere with Flippy's instinct to kill her. There are two episodes in which he doesn't kill her actually: ''Party Animal'' and ''Without A Hitch'', even though he could have easily done it.
* I already explained why he didn't kill Flaky in Party animal. And Flippy might have been cured in ''Double Whammy part 2''.
** He's not. He flips out in ''Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow'', an episode that aired much later.
 
== The real reason Flaky is afraid of baby chicks... ==
...is because the only part of ''{{spoiler|[[A BugsBug's Life (Animation)|A Bugs Life]]}}'' she caught was the end. She likely fainted and missed the rest after {{spoiler|Hopper bites it. Or rather, gets bitten}}.
 
== Flaky is a [[Tomboy]]. ==
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== Lammy has mild [[Reality Warper|reality warping]] powers. ==
She can turn any pickle she sees into her imaginary friend, Mr. Pickles. As seen at the end of her debut episode, she's in prison and is served her food, which has a pickle in it. The pickle is seen inanimate for a second, then it changes into Mr. Pickles. This power also the one that give Mr. Pickles life and intention to causing harm on the others.
* I assume this is meant to justify Mr. Pickles's arrival in the prison given [[Million -to -One Chance|the extremely low odds]] that it's the same pickle she started with?
 
== Lammy will never be used in another cartoon, ever. ==
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== Happy Tree Friends is an example of a typical animated series in the future ==
Think about it: Recently pretty much all animation has been shifting towards becoming more and more gory, with less clever jokes and more characters having violence inflicted on them with genuinely gory effects, instead of cartoony injuries. Examples would be [[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]], or The Simpsons. In 20-30 years, all animation will have become identical, removing any attempts at comedy besides horrible injuries inflicted on innocent people. In that time, a show called ''Happy Tree Friends'' was created, and it was the most popular show ever, eclipsing everything else. However, one person built a time machine and brought the show into the past in the hopes of becoming rich and famous. The result is the show Happy Tree Friends existing in our timeline.
* Interestingly enough, this could result in a [[Stable Time Loop]], where the popularity of Happy Tree Friends in this timeline further pushes animation in the gore department, resulting in the "original" version of the show being made in the future.
 
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Because if such an episode where to be released, the amount of [[Pure Awesomeness]] generated by it would cause [[Earthshattering Kaboom|the world to explode]]. Mondo Media is currently looking into ways to keep the damage contained [[The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You|behind the fourth wall]].
 
== Those are all [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|nicknames]]. ==
A ''lot'' of those names would never show up in real life... And those two with realistic names could easily have moved to the neighbourhood only a short while before the deaths/loops start happening. Lammy may have lived there since her birth, but could be shy about newcomers and rarely get the guts to get to know them.
 
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Cuddles and Toothy hadn't drunk as much as the others, and only felt sluggish when Petunia suddenly collapsed in the doorway, making them really scared.
Lumpy, upon seeing that they would flee and probably report it if he didn't stop them<ref>Note that although Lumpy always is seen as less than smart, his intelligence seems to vary</ref>, strangled Toothy and Cuddles, and then made them sit at the dining table after their deaths.
Meanwhile, the twins had come to steal some things (no, they aren'T the smartest of thieves). Suddenly when they tried to get away, they found that every door was locked and they couldn't get out before they were caught and met a terrible fate...
Lumpy didn't even bother bringing both of them to the table, but dumped one of them there, and then went back to the kitchen to prepare the dinner as if nothing had happened. The gas leak prevented that from happening.
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